Curious about success rates of clones into soil

Hello all,
I was wondering who has had personal success in cutting clones, and putting them directly into soil to root. Traditionally, I've used RR's or aerocloning, but I'm musing over the idea of putting cuttings into dixie cups with a soilmix, since in my current method, I veg for a bit in dixies and transplant into a larger container for flowering. I'm just wondering if I can save any time by removing one of my processes. Basically what I am asking is: if you have tried this method before, let's here how it worked for you! Right now, I would say the main disadvantage is not being able to monitor root growth, and my possible counter to that is to use a clear cup, and transplant as soon as i see roots.

On the other hand, I decided to start posting again.

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I use peat pellets when I clone, and have never had any problems and a 100% clone rate. I imagine your idea of soil in cups would work much the same way as my peat pellets,except for the lack of exposed root.

I root straight into potting compost.
I cut the cloves , dip them in natural honey and plant them.
Success rate so far is 100 %.

Thanks for the replies. psycho, in doing so, how long do you usually have to wait until you know if the cutting is viable or not? I guess that doesn't make sense since you say you have 100% success rate, what I am wondering is when do you know it is rooted, and ready to move into stronger lighting for veg? I'm assuming yellowing of leaves would allow you to know the plant is using nitrogen at this point, but in my experience of cloning, I haven't really ever constantly had leaves yellow on me after roots grew.

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I have been using this method throughout my cloning "career" and I'd say I have an 80-90% success rate with it. I just take my cuttings, dip in cloning gel, and stick them straight in very light soil (~50% perlite or so) and put a dome on them. I have a neat little greenhouse type deal that I bought to start hot peppers. It works great for cloning. Then I mist the inside of the dome, and put under a single floro tube and within 2 weeks I've got roots growing out the bottoms of the pots. I mist pretty much daily, depending on what it looks like they need.

I've had a few die on me, but looking back at it, I think it was more because I handled them a bit roughly, and wasn't always sterile with my conditions.